Aer Lingus Passenger numbers for May

Aer Lingus released it's May passenger statistics on Friday last, June 5 which coincided with the AGM and the local and European elections which may explain the lack of media coverage.

For the month the airline carried 972,000 passengers, up 2.7% YoY on May 2008. Short haul numbers were up 6% YoY and long haul was down a massive 21% YoY.

Network load factor was down 2.4% YoY.

Short haul at 78% was down 2.2% YoY for the month with capacity being reduced 14.9% YoY.

Long haul load factor at 66.2% was down 5% YoY against a capacity reduction of 19.3% YoY.